Engineer, Senior Staff QA
Qualcomm
Quality Assurance
Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Posted on Mar 31, 2025
Company:
Qualcomm India Private Limited
Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering
General Summary:
As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Machine Learning Engineer, you will create and implement machine learning techniques, frameworks, and tools that enable the efficient utilization of state-of-the-art machine learning solutions over a broad set of technology verticals or designs.
In this position you will be responsible for assisting with the software design and development of the Qualcomm AI Stack, SDKs and associated tools, targeting Snapdragon platforms. You will have the opportunity to show your passion for software design and development with your analytical, design, programming, and debugging skills.
All Qualcomm employees are expected to actively support diversity in their teams, and in the Company.
We are seeking a talented Sr. Staff Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will lead the team to develop applications and Test Framework and automate evaluation of 'Agentic AI and multimodal use cases' using Qualcomm AI Stack SDKs and tools on Snapdragon platforms. You will drive architecture, feature development, and enhancements needed in the SDK for various platforms. Collaboration is key, as you will work closely with the AI software team and other internal sub-teams within Qualcomm that support the Orchestrator SDK.
We value independence and leadership, so you will have the opportunity to work autonomously with minimal supervision while providing guidance to other team members. Your decision-making will be significant and will impact work beyond the immediate group.
Responsibilities
Required: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
Preferred: Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering
Minimum Qualifications:
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.
To all Staffing and Recruiting Agencies: Our Careers Site is only for individuals seeking a job at Qualcomm. Staffing and recruiting agencies and individuals being represented by an agency are not authorized to use this site or to submit profiles, applications or resumes, and any such submissions will be considered unsolicited. Qualcomm does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications from agencies. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Qualcomm employees or any other company location. Qualcomm is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/applications.
If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.
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Qualcomm India Private Limited
Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering
General Summary:
As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Machine Learning Engineer, you will create and implement machine learning techniques, frameworks, and tools that enable the efficient utilization of state-of-the-art machine learning solutions over a broad set of technology verticals or designs.
In this position you will be responsible for assisting with the software design and development of the Qualcomm AI Stack, SDKs and associated tools, targeting Snapdragon platforms. You will have the opportunity to show your passion for software design and development with your analytical, design, programming, and debugging skills.
All Qualcomm employees are expected to actively support diversity in their teams, and in the Company.
We are seeking a talented Sr. Staff Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will lead the team to develop applications and Test Framework and automate evaluation of 'Agentic AI and multimodal use cases' using Qualcomm AI Stack SDKs and tools on Snapdragon platforms. You will drive architecture, feature development, and enhancements needed in the SDK for various platforms. Collaboration is key, as you will work closely with the AI software team and other internal sub-teams within Qualcomm that support the Orchestrator SDK.
We value independence and leadership, so you will have the opportunity to work autonomously with minimal supervision while providing guidance to other team members. Your decision-making will be significant and will impact work beyond the immediate group.
Responsibilities
- Development test applications to test Agentic AI, Multimodal use cases using the Qualcomm AI Stack SDKs and tools on Snapdragon platforms.
- Drive architecture, feature development and enhancements needed in the SDK for various platforms.
- Work closely with the rest of the AI software team and with other internal sub-teams within Qualcomm involved in supporting Orchestrator SDK.
- Work independently with minimal supervision. Provides supervision/guidance to other team members. Decision-making is significant in nature and affects work beyond immediate work group.
- 10+ years of general software development experience
- 5+ years of Android/Linux software development experience
- ML Application development experience Python/C/C++
- Ability to lead a software team and collaborate to get work done
- Strong software design and development skills (e.g. data structure and algorithm design, object oriented or other software design paradigm knowledge, software debugging and testing, etc.)
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written) and an ability to convey complex and detailed information to multiple audiences and high-level stake holders
- Ability to make decisions and construct plans with minimal, conflicting, and sometimes missing information
- Experience with different operating systems (e.g., Linux, Android, QNX)
- Experience using/integrating Qualcomm AI Stack products (e.g. QNN, SNPE, QAIRT)
- Experience with LLM, LVM, LMM models, ONNX RT and different NN architectures.
- Software development experience with Python/Java is a plus
- Ability to collaborate across a globally diverse team and multiple interests
Required: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
Preferred: Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
- 3+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.
To all Staffing and Recruiting Agencies: Our Careers Site is only for individuals seeking a job at Qualcomm. Staffing and recruiting agencies and individuals being represented by an agency are not authorized to use this site or to submit profiles, applications or resumes, and any such submissions will be considered unsolicited. Qualcomm does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications from agencies. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Qualcomm employees or any other company location. Qualcomm is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/applications.
If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.
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